Combined mirror and pin.



` '.H. G. GOBBIN. .COMBINED MIRROR AND yPIN. .APPLIoATIoN FILED -JULY 22, 1910.

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OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, vASSIGrNOIB, TO BASTIAN BROTHERS /COMPANY,OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.`

COMBINED MIRROR AND PIN.

Specication of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 15, 1913.

Application led July 22, 1910. Serial No. 573,362.

To all whom t may concern Be it known that I, HARRY Gr. CoBIN,

la citizen of the United States, and resident of Rochester, in the county of Monroe and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Combined Mirrors and Pins, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an article ofjewelry which is adapted primarily /or use as an ornamental pin or brooch, but which is provided with a mirror, mounted at the back of the body which constitutes the ornamental portion of the pin, so that, upon removing the pin from the clothing of the wearer, the mirror may be used.

The object of the invention is to produce a combined article of the kind above referred to which shall be simple and inexpensive in construction, and in which the several parts shall be securely connected together. v

To this end the invention consists in the construction hereinafter described, as it is defined in the succeeding claim.

In the drawings: Figure 1 is a rear-elevation of a combined mirro-r and pin embodying the present invention; Fig. 2 is a horizontal section on the line 2--2 in Fig.

1, looking upwardly in the latter figure;

and Fig. 3 is a perspective View of the bezel-ring and pin detached from the other art-s of the device.

In the illustrated embodiment of the invention a body 1 of sheet-metal constitutes the support for the mirror and for the ornamental front surface of the device. This body ma be of any ornament-al outline, such as t e elliptical form illustrated, and is usually made somewhat convex, as shown in Fig. 2. The ornamental front surface is formed by a sheet 3 of paper, or other material, lithographed or otherwise ornamented. The body 1 is provided with a rearwardly-extending flange '4 throughout its margin, this flange being somewhat inwardly inclined, as shown in Fig. 2. The sheet 3 at its marginal portion is bent rearwardly around and inslde of the flange 4, and a sheet-metal bezel-ring 5 is inserted within the fiange.

This ring is tapering in form, and at its inner margin it is provided with a forwardly-bent fia-nge. The tapering outer surface of the ring engages the marginal portion of .the sheet 3 frictionally, and presses it against the' flange 4, thus operating to lock the edge of the sheet 3 securely against the inner surface of the flange. The bezel-ring serves further a's a means for securing in place the mirror k,6, which latter has the lsame general form as the body 1, but is somewhat smaller in diameter. The' bezel-ring also serves the further function of supporting the pin 7 and its catch. This pin is pivoted, at one end, in a hinge-member 8 which is soldered, or otherwise secured, to the bezel-ring on the rearmost rid e or convexity of the flange-portion of t e ring. The free pointed.

end of the pin is normally engaged by a hooked keeper 9 of ordinary form, which is secured to the bezel-ring on 'the op-posite side from the hinge-member 8. A packing 10 of corrugated paper, or other yielding material, is'interpo'sed between the mirror and the body 1 to hold the mirror firmly against the bezel-ring.

In the construction above described the bezel-ring serves the triple function of securing the sheet 3 and the mirror in place, and providing a support for the pin and its keeper, .and thus a simple and inexpensive construction is produced in which the several parts are readily assembled and are securely fixed.

The combined mirror and pin above described is used as a pin in the ordinary manner. When the mirror is to be Vused the pin is merely detached from the keeper and swung to the position of Fig. l, thus leaving the mirror unobstructed.

Apin or brooch comprising a rearwardlyianged body, a sheet of flexible material applied to the front-surface of the body with the margins of said around and inside the flange of the body, a tapered bezel-ring inserted within said flange and frictiona ly engaging said sheet, the bezel-ring having, at its inner margin, a forwardly-curved flange, a mirror, rear of the body, held in position by said sheet bent rearwardlyv at the flange on the bezel-ring, a packin of yieldmounted on the bezel-ring in the same maning materialinterposedbetween tle mirror ner" as the hinge-element but a position and the body7 to hold tho mirror firmly dimertrically opposite thereto. i lagainst the ange, a. hin e-elelent mounted HARRY G. CQBBIN.

5 on the rearniost ridge o thev flange portion Witnesses: of the bezel-'ringy'a in.. pivoted on said I FARNUM F. DonsEY, hingee1emen`t,and ay oper, for the pin, D. GURNEE. 

